Jae C. Hong / APFrom left, Cavaliers Manny Harris, Samardo Samuels, Jamario Moon, Alonzo Gee and Ramon Sessions are in back in action tonight in Utah, three days after a humiliating 55-point loss to the Lakers in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES — The Cavaliers returned to practice Thursday at UCLA without addressing the team-record, 55-point loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday -- or burying any basketballs.

Cavs coach Byron Scott isn't one for the sort of symbolic gestures football coaches sometimes employ, like burying footballs after an extremely painful loss.

"I'm not going to bury those 12 balls over there," Scott said, nodding toward the ball rack in the UCLA gym. "Now maybe the one that we had when we were playing against the Lakers that we were shooting with. If I could have that one right now, I'd bury that one."

Actually, Scott did not want to dig up any memories of Tuesday, so he did not address the loss Thursday.

Cavaliers at Jazz

Tipoff: 9 p.m. at EnergySolutions Arena, Salt Lake City.

TV/radio: Fox Sports Ohio; WTAM AM/1100.

Notable: Jazz beat the Cavs in the first meeting, 101-90, in Cleveland on Dec. 20. . . . Cavs have lost 11 straight, 21 of their past 22, and 17 straight on the road. . . . Jazz is 26-13 and has won two straight. . . . Jazz is 6-4 in their past 10 and 14-7 at home. Utah is 20-4 when it holds opponents under 100 points and is 16-2 against opponents with losing records.

-- Mary Schmitt Boyer

"I didn't think I had to," he said as the team prepared to fly to Utah for tonight's game. "I think I addressed it enough that night.

"I was embarrassed for our whole team. But that was two days ago. It's over with. We've got to move on and we've got to continue to try to get better."

They'll have to do that without Anthony Parker, who returned to Cleveland to get a second opinion on his bad back, and rookie Christian Eyenga, who tweaked his sprained right ankle and will be out tonight in Utah and Saturday in Denver.

Daniel Gibson practiced Thursday but likely won't play this weekend as his sprained left ankle continues to heal.

"I don't enjoy sitting out at all," said Gibson, who has been nagging the Cavs for a week about rejoining the team. "It's torture. It's like a little kid who gets held inside while everybody else is at recess. I try to get back as fast as I can. But the thing you don't want to do with an ankle injury is try to rush it and then it bothers you for the rest of the season."

According to Mo Williams, Tuesday's loss will bother him for the rest of the season -- and beyond.

"I'll never forget that," admitted Williams, who Tweeted about how embarrassed he was after the game. Williams, like the rest of the Cavs, declined to comment on LeBron James' Tweet.

Williams purchased 15 tickets for the game, but couldn't face his friends afterward. Instead, he went back to the hotel, talked to his wife and watched a couple movies.

"Obviously, there's no positives you can get out of that night," he said. "But the positive thing you can get out of it is to come to work the next day and continue to improve."

"We played a better team. Are they 55 points better than us? No. No team in this league is 55 points better than another, and on any given night a team can be beat. We use that as fuel."

Of course, it's one thing to talk about using a loss like that as motivation. The real proof will come when the Cavs step onto the court against the Jazz.

Williams and Scott insist they're not worried about how the Cavs will react tonight.

"I'm not worried," Williams said. "I want to play. I feel like we're not going to have a game like that no more. I'm ready."

Added Scott, when asked if there was a chance Tuesday's loss wouldn't be rock bottom: "No, I think that's pretty much the worst. So, no I'm not worried about it getting worse."

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